Sentences with phrase «unsustainable economic scales»
Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
Our generation of elders appears to be doing a woefully inadequate job of helping our children understand that the current, relentless, business - as - usual effort to grow the global economy, given the gigantic scale and anticipated growth rate of the economic globalization, could soon become patently unsustainable on a small, finite planet with the size and make - up of Earth.
Let us speak out now with intellectual honesty and courage about good scientific data indicating that the current scale and rate of growth of seemingly endless economic expansion could become a patently unsustainable enterprise in this century.
The increase in flood risk may become unsustainable in regions where the combination of socio - economic and climatic drivers trigger large - scale climatic crises involving conflicts and mass migration, according to the authors.